Work Experience
A journey through my professional experiences and contributions
Founding Engineer
Building public-safe zero-exfiltration infrastructure security products for AI-era data risk at an early-stage startup
Working across Go, Python, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering while keeping company implementation details private
Collaborating with the founding team on security architecture, customer discovery, roadmap tradeoffs, and production delivery
Applying observability, secure-by-design engineering, and automation practices to infrastructure security workflows
Software Engineer
Reduced manual data verification effort by 70% while maintaining 99.9% accuracy across 1M+ records by engineering automated Python validation workflows
Improved digital preservation integrity for 1M+ archival records by building automated metadata extraction and validation pipelines in Python and Bash that caught schema violations before ingest
Software Engineer – Full Stack
Shipped 3 full-stack e-commerce platforms handling 10K+ daily transactions using React and SQL-backed REST APIs, scaling to 2x traffic growth without infrastructure changes
Reduced page load times by 30% and bounce rates by 12% by optimizing SQL execution plans, implementing Redis caching, and restructuring API payloads
Increased user engagement by 25% through responsive product UI redesigns in Figma and CSS that improved mobile conversion